if you scoured the writings of just about any prolific commentator, you could find a handful of excerpts on the basis of which you could claim that this person is 'economically radical.' unfortunately--for your theory, but fortunately for just about everyone and everything else--there's a difference between JP2 and 'the catholic church.' if you're really interested in testing your theory, you might look into some of the not very 'unidimensional' analyses of the church under JP2 in latin america by penny lernoux--for starters. or maybe read up on the fine examples of stoogery, quislingdom, and explicit fascism he's zealously advocated with his innovative fast-track canonizations. or his fanatical imposition of doctrinal order on groups and tenden- cies within the church that tend toward effecting progressive change rather than merely compensating for the current regime.
>How should the Left deal with such a global institution that actually shares
>some (if not all) of its beliefs on economic and many social issues
>(multiculturalism, death penalty, welfare) despite opposition to its
>patriarchal theology?
he who snacks with the devil should use a long spork.
cheers, t